Heaven Has a Wall (eBook)

Religion, Borders, and the Global United States

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
9780226841199 (ISBN)

Infos

An urgent exploration of borders as sacred objects in American culture. Our national conversation about the border has taken a religious turn. When televangelists declare, "e;Heaven has a wall,"e; activists shout back, "e;Jesus was a refugee."e; For Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, the standoff makes explicit a longstanding truth: borders are religious as well as political objects. In this book, Hurd argues that Americans share a bipartisan border religion, complete with an array of beliefs and practices, including a reverence for national security, a liturgy for immigration, and an eschatological foreign policy. Through an analysis of the many ways the United States creates, enforces, and ignores borders at home and abroad, Hurd offers a bold new perspective on the ties that bind American religion, politics, and public life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-13: 9780226841199 / 9780226841199